Al-Qaeda

Following the attack of British couple who were holidaying in Lamu, Kenya in the luxury resort called Kiwayu Safari Village were attacked over the week-end, the piracy problem has come back on the international agenda.

A day after the United States observed the tenth anniversary of 9/11, a taped message from Osama bin Laden surfaced, four months after his death.

Following 9/11 and despite Al-Qaeda claiming the attacks, conspiracy theories emerged rapidly, with many blaming a Zionist enterprise. While many claim a Zionist involvement, very few seem able to explain how Bin Laden, a symbol of the fight against the West and the infidels for many Islamist extremists, apparently worked hand in hand with the Jewish lobby groups to prepare the attacks.

As the tenth anniversary of the Al-Qaeda-led 9/11 attacks on New York took place yesterday, both President Obama and former President George Bush addressed the crowds as ceremonies were held at various locations.

The "war on terror" declared by the U.S. and its allies ten years ago, following the Al-Qaeda-led 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, has failed to deliver peace but instead led to a resurgence of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the British Science Association's annual Festival of Science was told yesterday.

All the weeks pictures from the world of news for the 5-9 September. This week has seen Ed Miliband turn his back on the unions, the phone hacking scandal increase pressure on James Murdoch as well as England beating Wales in European Championship qualifier as well as the 9/11 documentary which showed the months, days and moments after the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

With the tenth anniversary 9/11 fast approaching, U.S. counter-terrorism officials say the threat of a car or truck bomb attack in New York or Washington is "specific, credible but unconfirmed."

As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches and details of the U.S. employing controversial measures in Guantanamo Bay to obtain information on Bin Laden, the former head of the MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence service, said the use of torture is "wrong and never justified".

The Channel Four Documentary "Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill" aired on British television Wednesday night, four months after American Special Forces stormed the al-Qaida leader's compound in Pakistan and shot the man responsible for thousands of deaths across the world.

The events of 9/11 seem very clear to most people in the world. Nineteen terrorists were able to get through airport security, hijack four passenger airliners and fly them into targets to cause maximum devastation to New York and Washington DC. However to some, the reaction of the United States in the aftermath of 9/11 does not add up, raising suspicions of an 'inside job.'

Younis al-Mauritani, a senior al-Qaeda commander, who experts say acted as the organisation's "foreign minister", has been captured by Pakistani security forces working together with the CIA, the Pakistani army said on Monday.

Tensions between the UK, China and the Libyan Transitional Council (NTC) are increasing after allegations of close ties to the Gaddafi regime threaten to derail the relationship the NTC has with its allies.

Throughout the last six months, Algeria has been a constant feature of the conflict: imaginary or real ally of Gaddafi, the country has been accused throughout the months of sending troops, arming Gaddafi forces or sheltering the former dictator.

As violent clashes between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria continue to make more casualties, religious tensions continue to threaten the stability of the country.

A car bomb was detonated at the UN offices in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, with reports suggesting as many as 16 people may be dead.

Officials say a suicide bomber struck a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than a 100.

The FBI has said it will investigate a threat to kill U.S. talk show host David Letterman which was made by a Muslim extremist militant who appeared to call for the comedian's tongue to be cut out.

Iraqi officials say gunmen wearing military uniforms pulled seven people from a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad and then shot and killed them, execution-style, the AP reported

The Pakistani Taliban group has claimed responsibility for a rare female suicide attack and another bombing against police to "avenge" military operations in the lawless tribal belt on Friday.

A film project focusing on the U.S. raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is already causing controversy after Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, demanded an inquiry after learning of the Pentagon's collaboration with Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow.

According to officials, tow missiles were fired by a U.S. drone into Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people.

After months of blaming al-Qaeda style Islamists for the uprising that led to the implementation of a NATO-led operation in Libya, the Gadhafi regime it seems is ready for an image overhaul.

China blamed Muslim extremists for a deadly attack on Sunday in its north-western Xinjiang region, even saying that the militants had been trained in camps in Pakistan.

As news emerged that diplomatic effort and negotiations to finally put an end to the five month conflict centred on the establishment of a five-man interim government led by the National Transitional Council (NTC), Col. Gaddafi it seems is still laughing at reports he would be prepared to step down.

African Union peacekeepers in Somalia have captured three "strategic" locations from al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda- linked rebels in the capital, Mogadishu, who last week denied it had accepted to lift a ban allowing aid workers to provide assistance to people in the famine-struck country, it was reported on Thursday.

The news that Britain is now open to the idea of Colonel Gaddafi spending his retirement in Libya, as opposed to being dragged off to an absurd court in Northern Europe, does not come as any great surprise.

Over the week end, Algeria was forced to deny charges that a Libyan ship offloaded weapons for Muammar Gaddafi's troops at one of its ports.

In one of the many bizarre statements in his 1,500 page manifesto, Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed nearly a hundred people in terrorist attacks in Norway on Friday, said he would be willing to work with al-Qaeda and Iran.

On Saturday, July 23, Norway was hit by two deadly terrorist attacks. In the first, a bomb exploded in Oslo's government sector, political analysts and commentators quickly started looking in the direction of an Al-Qaeda style Islamist group as the likely culprits in such a horrific attack.

According to a new speech by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Monday, the United States has no interest in creating permanent military bases in Afghanistan and does not want to use the country as a platform to influence neighbouring countries.